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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1923

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A Rough Voyage. Two Men Drowned Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 5

The five master schooner Elinor H,1409 tons, arrived here yesterday from Durban captain Endreson states that the…

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Drowning Fatality

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 6

Last Sunday morning a Cessnock la[?] named Arthur Leslie Dann, son of Mr. A. H. Dann, of Cessnock, was drowned in the Hunter River, near Luskintyre…

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Buchanan Fatality. Coroner's Inquiry. of Accidental Death

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 4

The coroner's Inquiry into the death of John Henry Coward, aged 15 years, who was killed in the bush at Buchanan on Tuesday while…

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Motor Car Accident. Several Cessnock Residents Injured. Arthur William (Wig) Wells Seriously Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 4

A lamentable motor car accident, in which a party of Cessnock people were concerned happened just beyond the bridge at Heddon Greta on Saturday…

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Tram Accident. Excitement at Melbourne. 28 Persons Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 5

A Melbourne message states that 28 [?] were injured, five badly, when a cabin [?] jumped the points at south Melbourne last night…

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Cycling Accident

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 5

Prior to the one-mile bicycle handicap on the Cessnock Park On Saturday afternoon Robert and David Wilkinson and Cyril Norris, three of…

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The Heddon Greta Accident. Wig Well's Condition

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 11

Word from the Kurri Kurri Hospital to-day showed that the condition of our much esteemed resident, Wig Wells, had not improved. Wig has been…

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Queensland Fatality Mother Injured, Baby Killed. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 14

A Maryorough (Queensland) message says with her three-montbs-old baby in her arms, Mrs. Hare, accompanied by a boy, was driving in…

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Collision. Train and Waggon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 3

A serious's accident was narrowly averted near Gosford on Monday last, when a a small train, carrying a full complement of passengers, crashed…

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Motor Fatality. Man and Woman Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 14

Two persons lost their lives in a motor accident at Bristane on Saturday night. They are Frank Smith and Eileen Ray. Both were residents of…

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Melbourne Tram Accident 28. Persons Injured. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 6

A Melbourne message states that 28 persons were injured, five badly, when a cable tram jumped the points at South Melbourne last night…

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Operating Theatre. Remarkable Parish Fatality London, January 13

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 13

While a middle-aged women was undergoing an operation on an electrically heated metal table in Paris (says the London "Daily Mail") the…

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Two People Injured. Railway Crossing Smash

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 9

A sensational accident happened at the 340 mile post crossing, on the Mildura railway (Vie.) Mrs. N. Later, of Yatpool, was…

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Sulky Backed Into Train a Peculiar Accident

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 January 1923 · page 7

On Tuesday morning an accident occurred at Milbrulong as the train was entering the railway station. Miss Grace Rawson and Miss Joan Rawson,…

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Steamers in Collision the Nautilus Sunk. Four Men Missing. London, January 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 January 1923 · page 5

Reuter's Antwerp correspondent states that the British—India steamer Australia collided in the Scheldt with the London steamer. Nautilus…

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Two Boys Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 January 1923 · page 5

Leslie Tooth and John Hayman both aged 13, left their home at Bundanoon on Sunday to go for a swim A couple of house later their bodies…

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Kurri. Accidents At Weston. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 January 1923 · page 2

At Hebburn No. 1 Colliery at the weekend, H. T. Elliott, a miner, sustained a lacerated leg through a frill of coal as the was drawing timber…

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Accident at Bishop's Bridge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 January 1923 · page 2

Mr. J. Adams' Talbot car had the front axle broken on a bad bit of road at Bishop's Bridge, which proceeding home to weston on sunday…

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Heddon Greta Accident Death of Me Wells

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 23 January 1923 · page 3

Mr Arthur William Wells, who was injured in a motor accident on the Maitland-Kurri Kurri road, near Heddon Greta, on January 13, died in Kurri…

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Trucks in Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 January 1923 · page 5

Running swiftly down a slight incline at Rozelle railway yards last night, four heavy trucks crashed into another truck loaded with sand. Two…

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